everyone is resigning

so what is up with karl rove, alberto gonzales, and tony snow all resigning from the bush administration? and idaho senator larry craig is resigning too. larry craig, like michael vick, pled guilty to a crime. michael vick, of course, is an nfl quarterback that ran a dogfighting ring. and larry craig was trying to solicit gay sex in a public men’s bathroom in a minneapolis airport. karl rove is most notable for his divisive propaganda that excites the passions of a minority of the american populace known as the religious right. the religious right hates gays, and larry craig, like ted haggard, is a self-hating homosexual from the religious right. well ok... we do not know for sure that larry craig is homosexual. he could be bisexual, and be attracted both to females such as his wife as well as males that he meets in illicit sexual encounters in airport restrooms. now there is not anything wrong with being gay or bi, but there is something wrong with anti-gay prejudice like the kind that we see from the religious right. and why were republicans so quick to want to get rid of this larry craig guy from the u.s. senate? i think it is not because he pled guilty to a crime, but rather because he was publicly exposed as a self-hating gay hypocrite who practices homosexual acts in his private life while publicly being a staunch opponent of the gay rights movement. but it is not even the hypocrisy that republicans are upset about, i think. i think they are just upset about it because of their anti-gay prejudice. after the whole affair with mark foley and ted haggard, they are just sick of gay republicans that make them look bad. i guess that is the heart of the matter, that having someone like larry craig represent them makes them look bad. it is all about public relations and the public perception of republicans. they are more concerned about their poll numbers than anything else. now karl rove won elections by appealing to the religious right, to people who hate gays, with the whole issue of gay marriage, with all the gay marriage ballot initiatives across the country. it is shameful that the republican party relies upon stirring up the passions of hate and bigotry in order to win elections, and tries to divide people instead of uniting them, turning straight against gay, white against black, christian against atheist, man against woman. we ought to allow people of all sexual orientations, races, belief systems, and genders to participate in politics equally, and to unite with others who are different from them in support of common goals. it disturbs me how politicians keep talking about faith and religion and they keep trying to sneakily make christianity the official state religion of the united states just because the majority of americans are christians. in iran, the majority of people are shiite muslims. in india, the majority are hindus. in israel, the majority are jews. should governments officially support some religions and not others? this makes people who are not part of the majority religion feel left out, excluded, discriminated against, and politically irrelevant, like they have no power and nobody in power is listening to them or cares about them. i don’t want the government telling me which of the many religions out there is the correct one that i should believe in. i don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to “faith-based initiatives” to promote theocracy and indoctrinate people into belief systems i disagree with. if the government just stayed out of this business of interfering with religion, and left the whole issue of religion alone, things would be a lot better, and i would not find myself forced into the position of becoming such a staunch opponent of religion. i don’t want the government forcing religion down my throat. if people want to believe something i personally disagree with, and go to a church or synagogue or mosque or temple or shrine or whatever, that is fine, as long as they do not interfere with me and force me to do anything i don’t want to do. that is what freedom of religion is all about. but religion is not an excuse to hate people because of which sexual orientation they were born with. you see, although i am not a gay, i do not like how certain minority groups become the objects of hate, and society condemns them, and it becomes a divisive issue. when the majority is oppressing a minority, i will always take the side of the oppressed minority, because i am opposed to oppression. i do not believe in a government of wealthy white christian heterosexual males who only care about other wealthy white christian heterosexual males, even though i am a white heterosexual male too (but not wealthy or christian). it should be a government of all the people, of all the people, and for all the people. it is funny how these religious right types used to condemn “niggers” as inferior or say that all the jews were going to go to hell, but nowadays, they have reformed their ways slightly and have abandoned racism against blacks and anti-semitism against jews, in favor of hatred against gays, atheists, muslims, and mexicans. political correctness seems to only apply to bigotry against blacks and jews but not any other groups. and as for sexism, it is open season on feminists, and everyone likes to attack the so-called “feminazis”. it sure is strange how arbitrary it is which groups of people cannot be criticized and which ones everybody is strongly condemning. can you imagine what it would be like if people were not constantly criticizing islam, and had the same attitude towards “islamophobia” that they have towards “anti-semitism”? now, the word “islamophobia” is poorly chosen, if it is supposed to get people not to criticize islam. we have every reason to have a phobia towards islam and fear islam. after all, islamic terrorists keep attacking and killing people all across the world, from the 9/11 attacks in the united states to the attacks in london to the attacks in madrid to the ones in indonesia to the ones in morocco and the ones in turkey and in russia and almost every country in the middle east. you would have to be insane not to be afraid of islamic terrorists. now it is true that only a small percentage of muslims are actual terrorists, but is that really a good reason not to be afraid of them, not to have islamophobia? we have no way of knowing which muslims are terrorists and which are not. like in england, doctors actually became terrorists! and these are people who put in years going through medical school and everything, people you would expect to act civilized, people who were living in a wealthy, industrialized country with good jobs. when your enemy is attacking and killing you, it is insanity not to have any fear. so this term “islamophobia” is quite poorly chosen because i think pretty much everyone ought to have some degree of islamophobia, even most muslims. i mean in iraq, muslims are killing other muslims because shiites and sunnis hate each other. and now, there is actual fighting and killing by shiites against rival shiites. if i were an iraqi, i would almost certainly be afraid of these gangs of vicious killers who happen to be muslim. now is this fear of islam itself or just fear of murderous terrorists that happen to be muslim? it seems like a matter of semantics to me, because you cannot tell which muslims are terrorists. you could be a patient at a hospital in england and have a doctor who is muslim who later on turns out to be a terrorist... it happened earlier this year. but i suppose it might be better to focus on being afraid of terrorists in general rather than being afraid of muslims in general. now anyway, so what about the people who resigned? like larry craig, who said he is not gay? larry craig does not have a lot of credibility. after all, he pled guilty to a crime and then claimed he was innocent, even though he signed a legal document that states that he is guilty. so by claiming he is innocent now, he is contradicting himself. as for alberto gonzales, he was an incompetent yes-man who wrote an infamous torture memo and basically had no idea what he was doing, answering “i don’t know” to almost all the questions people in congress asked him, demonstrating that he was clueless and had no idea what was going on in the justice department he was supposed to be in charge of. an incompetent fool who had no idea what he was doing, just like former fema boss michael brown. the government should have the best and the brightest in charge of things, not blundering idiots like these fools. and back when tony snow was hired as white house press secretary away from his job as a fox news anchor, he put the final nail in the coffin of the myth that fox news is “fair and balanced”. fox news is republican party propaganda, plain and simple. if only people like bill o’reilly and sean hannity resigned from fox news, maybe someday fox news might become a legitimate news organization, instead of a pravda-esque partisan propaganda machine. but i think at the end of the day, the republicans were right to call for senator larry craig of idaho to resign. after all, with his lying about not being guilty of a crime after he pled guilty to it, larry craig showed that he has less honor and integrity than michael vick, the nfl quarterback that ran a dogfighting ring. at least michael vick apologized to everyone and admitted he was wrong, rather than maintaining a holier-than-thou attitude like larry craig. people with big egos like larry craig really get on my nerves. i much prefer people with low self-esteem who dislike themselves, because at least those people have realistic attitudes about themselves and are not pretending to be better than everyone else. now tony snow said he was resigning because he was running out of money. his salary is $168,000 a year. what the hell is this assclown wasting so much money on, that he goes broke on such a high salary? i make less than one tenth that salary and i can still manage to pay my bills, somehow. my message to tony snow is pretty simple: if you are running out of money, quit spending so much of it on stuff you don’t need, you idiot. it’s pretty simple. in third world countries people survive on less than $1,000 per year. tony snow is making 168 times as much as that and he still can’t pay his bills? what a retard. you know, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger and bigger all the time, and it is not a meritocracy at all. rich people do not earn their money. they do not deserve their money. their money is not earned based on merit at all. many of them are actually idiots who have no clue what to do with money. i mean, just look at all the big businesses that go bankrupt after getting lots of loans, or after giving out lots of loans to undeserving people who obviously would not pay the money back. i think the companies that gave out subprime mortgages were run by idiots and had bad business plans and they deserve to go out of business, and anyone dumb enough to invest in them deserves to lose their money. the government should not intervene at all in something like the subprime mortgage market collapse. and now that home prices are finally going down and the housing bubble is bursting, we are finally seeing some sanity restored to the market. people shouldn’t act like idiots and think this is the end of the world or anything like that. it is good when housing prices go down, because it makes homes more affordable to buy, and people don’t have to pay so much in taxes on their homes. i keep hearing news stories about this where people are all worried about the price of homes going down, and i don’t have any sympathy for people who are worried about something so stupid. people don’t get worried when the price of gasoline goes down or the price of food goes down or the price of computers goes down. people usually worry when the prices of things go up. when stuff gets cheaper that is almost always a good sign. and as for people who suddenly have to pay a lot more on their variable-rate mortgages that used to be much cheaper for them to pay... again... they are idiots. they should have known what they were doing when they signed up for it, and they should have realized that interest rates could not stay so ridiculously low forever. if someone has no clue how to manage money, and they screw everything up by buying stuff they can’t afford, they deserve to lose all the stuff they bought on credit that they could not afford in the first place. people should quit whining about self-inflicted problems and asking other people to bail them out because of their own stupidity. i work hard at my job and i only buy things i can afford, and i can only afford to buy very little because my job pays such a small amount of money. if some idiot works as white house press secretary and makes more than ten times as much as me and still can’t pay his bills, he should do what i do and not waste money on things he can’t afford. i hardly think it could be that difficult. it is an insult to me and other hard-working low-paid people for a wealthy person such as him to claim to have difficulty paying his bills. and then he and other republicans don’t want to do anything to help out us poor people, to help raise our standard of living and shrink the gap between the rich and the poor. rich people do not deserve their money. they ought to pay higher taxes. i wish i had lots of money like them. they ought to share the wealth and stop keeping it all for themselves. there are tv shows where wealthy celebrities show off their mansions and all the expensive stuff they wasted money on, and it just disgusts me to see people showing off their wealth, as if that makes them better than everyone else. no it does not make them better than everyone else. it shows off their selfishness and their lack of caring about people who are less lucky and well-off than them, and demonstrates the fact that they do not deserve their wealth at all. their materialism disgusts me. if people want to spend lots of money on things, they ought to at least spend it on things that are useful and can serve some sort of purpose. what is the point of “pimping your ride”? people who are dumb enough to waste money on silly pointless things do not deserve the money in the first place. anyway, i do not think any of the people who resigned deserved to have their jobs in the first place. there ought to have been democrats in those jobs, not republicans. and of course, the democrats who should have had the jobs of karl rove, tony snow, and alberto gonzales ought to have been working for a democratic president, rather than the the most incompetent fool of all, george w. bush. now democrats are not immune to this problem of hiring incompetent fools for top positions. john kerry’s top campaign adviser for the 2004 campaign was bob shrum, an incompetent fool who had mismanaged a large number of previous presidential campaigns that all lost miserably. bob shrum’s track record of nothing but failure should have barred him from being the top campaign adviser to john kerry, and john kerry should have instead hired someone who actually knows how to win elections. politicians need to stop rewarding failure, and hire people who actually have talent and know what they are doing! you know, people like me!